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Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker
Christ the universal peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Christ the universall peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodvvin, B.D.
London: printed by J.G. for R. Dawlman, 1651
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Thus God foreordained, that as to honour his Son in reconciling us to himself, he permits the greatest sins and enmities to be in the hearts and lives of those he intends to save, against himself: so likewise that the highest and toughest animosities should be found, amongst those, (when he should come on earth,) that were ordained to be his people, to show the Sovereign power, and efficacy of his mediation, in constituting them one new-man in himself. These but in general for a foundation out of the text.
Thus God foreordained, that as to honour his Sonne in reconciling us to himselfe, he permits the greatest sins and enmities to be in the hearts and lives of those he intends to save, against himselfe: so likewise that the highest and toughest animosities should be found, amongst those, (when he should come on earth,) that were ordained to be his people, to shew the Soveraigne power, and efficacy of his mediation, in constituting them one new-man in himselfe. These but in generall for a foundation out of the text.
The story of the Particulars of it hath two branches: 1. What it was between them before Christ, and the conversion of either to the Christian faith. 2. What after conversion, and that both equally had embraced Christ.
The story of the Particulars of it hath two branches: 1. What it was betweene them before Christ, and the conversion of either to the Christian faith. 2. What after conversion, and that both equally had embraced Christ.
1. Take the elevation of it before, both out of the Scriptures and other authentic Testimonies: Both, 1. Of the Jew against the Gentile. 2. Of the Gentile against the ⟨p. 16⟩Jew. And I shall withal by the way, make a parallel of the one with the other.